Additional thoughts:Orb of Mystery is looking more and more like a placeholder item...an item that will have its price drastically reduced. Seeing that this mount is BoE, it would be difficult to sell since the gold cap for character is currently 999,999g 99s 99c (half the price of the mimimum cost, currently). I have already expressed my concerns on the beta forums but only time will tell now. Again, I will update once I find out anything new ^-^

UPDATE: 06/26/2012:

This mount was originally NOT going to be on the list of account-wide mounts in Mists of Pandaria. However, a decision was quite recently made to change this:

Comment by BullDozzer

This is a meta mount! Since it costs 4 "lesser" mounts to craft, it will make it a hard decision, since after you have learnt the mount, there is no way of merging your four learned spells in to this bad boy, you have to have four not-yet-learned mounts, sitting around in you bag.So you will have to choose to learn a panther when you get it; or save up and craft the "Meta Mount". This is of course subject of change and might change in to "just" a more expensive mount, instead of consuming 4 other mounts in the progress.

Please correct me if I'm wrong with any of this information, I'm bad at math :D

Comment by darkthorgoth

so will you be able to get all 5 mounts?i mean the 4 "normal" and the 1 that is made after combining all of them?i know it's gona cost a hell of a lot golds but just wondering....

2 days ago i spoke with a GM about the long forgoten issue of BS specializations and when/if they coming back to game (ggrrrrr)and i also had the chance to ask about that issue on my post...he said that he could not give me a 100% correct answer but "comon sense" is that you will be able to have all 5 of those mounts :))

Comment by VeNoM0713

SS pending. One of my guildies just crafted this beautiful mount. Annnnnnd, Now she's broke lol.

Comment by sateda

do you need to have the unused mounts in your bag to creat this one or can you have them in your mounts space and still make the onyx?

Comment by GeneralWarhawk

Straight copy from the Muumilaakson tarinoita, from the panther wich the magician is flying with :P

Comment by solobutterfly

(modified from Inidentified123's post to be accurate for 5.0.5, rest of links will be added when wowhead updates them to not look so broken)

Comment by sopor30

A guy in my guild has a good analogy to describe getting this mount instead of the sunstone, ruby, jade and sapphire ones (because essentially you're sacrificing having each of those 4 mounts for this one, unless you're super crazy rich and go for all 5!).

Imagine you're at the exotic car dealership in your city, and before you there are five Lamborghini Murciélagos; each a different color: yellow (sunstone), red (ruby), green (jade), blue (sapphire) and black (onyx). The yellow, red, green and blue are each $300,000 (I have no idea how much they really are), but the black one is $1,200,000. Oddly enough you've got exactly $1,200,000 sitting around that you want to blow!

So your choices are: either buy the yellow, red, green and blue Lamborghini's and have 4 of them sitting around in your garage that you can show off, or buy the black one and have just it sitting around in your garage. Of course, it all comes down to personal preference. Maybe the black really is just that much cooler than all of the other 4.

Comment by Mormolyce

I'll form the head!

Comment by sunski

Other people have observed that this mount is considerably larger than the other jeweled panther mounts, but has anyone else noticed that when you cast this mount your character grows in size and then when you dismount you shrink again? It seems to stack with other size increasing things like darkmoon fire water.

Comment by Megideon

Bought this from a lvl 3 human in SW today for 50k.. i smell dupe again.

Comment by Mendric

I just finally made this. Had one issue that it was not account wide when I learned it. Normally I have a couple accounts active and online at the same time. I learn a mount or pet and they can go right into using it. This one as of this moment, does NOT say account wide on the tool tip and was NOT account wide after I learned it until I relogged my other account. So this scare will most likely only be others that multi-box but the tooltip should be fixed since those selling any of these JC mounts may be hindered by the flaw.

Comment by KingVoodoo

I need dat mount, too bad I don't got the gold for it :(

Comment by WickeDanneh

I wish this mount DIDN'T fly, because it makes no sense, and it's a big ass pull.

Comment by Fancyspoon

Yes, the mount is tradable, and yes, it is worth a small fortune. This is basically MoPs version of Vial of the Sands only not quite as spectacular (in my opinion). These have been selling frequently on my server (Aerie Peaks PvE) for 50k - 70k. If you are looking for THE MOUNT of this expansion to show off your money bags, this would be it. If you're looking to add a mount or two to your collection, it would be better to just buy all four of the individual mounts that make up this behemoth.

Comment by PortageLakes

"You cannot auction an item with used charges"

Beware when buying this mount for drastically cheap prices in hopes of flipping it on the AH for a profit. I just bought the thing today from a scrub level 1 thinking I could flip it and there's some whack thing associated with the mount that won't let you sell it on the AH.

I've heard of people being able to dupe items, I don't know if that's true or not but I'd imagine if it is this is one of those items. You can still learn it for personal use if you don't already know it, just beward you can't resell it on the AH.

The only way you can sell it for a profit is it do it directly in trade chat.